rebattre

French

Etymology

re- +‎ battre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.batʁ/

Verb

rebattre

1. to beat again, defeat again
2. to beat up again
3. to fight again
4. (cooking) to whisk or whip eggs
5. (card games) to reshuffle

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like battre. That means it is conjugated like vendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs), except that instead of *rebatt and *rebatts, it has the forms rebat and rebats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.

Conjugation of rebattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rebattre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rebattant /ʁə.ba.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rebattu /ʁə.ba.ty/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rebats /ʁə.ba/	rebats /ʁə.ba/	rebat /ʁə.ba/	rebattons /ʁə.ba.tɔ̃/	rebattez /ʁə.ba.te/	rebattent /ʁə.bat/
	imperfect	rebattais /ʁə.ba.tɛ/	rebattais /ʁə.ba.tɛ/	rebattait /ʁə.ba.tɛ/	rebattions /ʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/	rebattiez /ʁə.ba.tje/	rebattaient /ʁə.ba.tɛ/
	past historic2	rebattis /ʁə.ba.ti/	rebattis /ʁə.ba.ti/	rebattit /ʁə.ba.ti/	rebattîmes /ʁə.ba.tim/	rebattîtes /ʁə.ba.tit/	rebattirent /ʁə.ba.tiʁ/
	future	rebattrai /ʁə.ba.tʁe/	rebattras /ʁə.ba.tʁa/	rebattra /ʁə.ba.tʁa/	rebattrons /ʁə.ba.tʁɔ̃/	rebattrez /ʁə.ba.tʁe/	rebattront /ʁə.ba.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rebattrais /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/	rebattrais /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/	rebattrait /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/	rebattrions /ʁə.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/	rebattriez /ʁə.ba.tʁi.je/	rebattraient /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	rebatte /ʁə.bat/	rebattes /ʁə.bat/	rebatte /ʁə.bat/	rebattions /ʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/	rebattiez /ʁə.ba.tje/	rebattent /ʁə.bat/
	imperfect2	rebattisse /ʁə.ba.tis/	rebattisses /ʁə.ba.tis/	rebattît /ʁə.ba.ti/	rebattissions /ʁə.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/	rebattissiez /ʁə.ba.ti.sje/	rebattissent /ʁə.ba.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rebats /ʁə.ba/	—	rebattons /ʁə.ba.tɔ̃/	rebattez /ʁə.ba.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• rebattre les oreilles

Further reading

• “rebattre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.